Prime Design/Time Design
Live album by
Ornette Coleman
Released1985
Recorded1985
GenreJazz
LabelCaravan of Dreams
ProducerKathelin Hoffman
Ornette Coleman chronology
Opening the Caravan of Dreams
(1985)		 Prime Design/Time Design
(1985)		 Song X
(1986)

Prime Design/Time Design is a live album written by the American jazz composer Ornette Coleman and recorded by a string quartet, with Ornette's son Denardo Coleman on drums, at the Caravan of Dreams in 1985 and released on the Caravan of Dreams label.[1] The composition is dedicated to Coleman's "best hero," Buckminster Fuller, and is an interpretation of Fuller's "vision of the birth of the universe, the fusion of chaos and harmony".[2]

Excerpts from the performance of Prime Design/Time Design appeared in Shirley Clarke's 1985 film Ornette: Made in America.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

The AllMusic review awarded the album 1½ stars.[4]

Syd Fablo of RockSalted stated that he sees the album as "being in service of an agenda completely independent of genre categories like jazz/classical," and commented: "it is indeed remarkable how Ornette manages to create some of the same 'sourness' of tone that he achieves in his alto saxophone playing through written notation for a string quartet. And yet there is a grim, determined hopefulness to the music."[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman
  1. "Prime Design/Time Design Part 1"
  2. "Prime Design/Time Design Part 2"
  • Recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985 by Ron St.Germain & David Hewitt on the Record Plant NY Black Truck.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Ornette Coleman discography accessed November 26, 2011
  2. ↑ Golia, Maria (2020). Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure. Reaktion Books.
  3. ↑ Chinen, Nate (August 30, 2012). "Freewheeling Musician Gets Free-Form Tribute". New York Times. Retrieved July 26, 2022.
  4. 1 2 Allmusic Review accessed November 26, 2011
  5. ↑ Fablo, Syd (December 19, 2017). "Ornette Coleman – Prime Design / Time Design". RockSalted. Retrieved July 26, 2022.


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